Limiting Ourselves is Dangerous

CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a presentation on autism. Several young subjects, both blind and mentally impaired, appeared, playing the piano like accomplished pianists. One subject, who didn’t know his left hand from his right, could play equally well the base and treble with either hand. He could press down any number of keys someone else pressed but could not tell the number of keys he pressed. These subjects were unconscious of a talent that takes normal people years to develop. It is obvious that part of us lies dormant, which can be triggered when we are lacking in faculties. That’s as far as CBS took us. Your guess is as good as anyone’s What was the point of the presentation?

Physicist Richard Feynman, in saying, “I think I can safely say that no one understands quantum mechanics. Do not keep asking yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, ‘but how can it be like that?’” Is it nobody knows how it can be like that?” Should we take some things for granted and not ask questions, just have faith in the supernatural; that is, in whatever? What about the faith that caused 19 extremists to bring down the World Trade Center? Should we accept anything on pure faith? For our good health, due to blind faith, there is far too much we don’t know.

Some quantum physicists imagine a state of infinite possibilities. They get their idea from their study of a world that is not yet real, at least to our way of thinking. A world of subatomic particles doesn’t act the way our world acts. Particles are said to be the aspects of matter. From lab experiments, these physicists say observation causes our reality. Classical physics calls it baloney. Bell’s theorem has it that there is a nonlocal force of the universe that is not subject to physical laws. Programmed particles have been proven to be in instant communication no matter how far separated. They are not subject to physical laws. Classical science says baloney, but can’t prove it wrong, reminding me of the world is flat theory.

Classical physics is the study of the quantitative universe. Quantum physics, in recognizing consciousness, is connecting the quantitative with the qualitative. When we limit ourselves to quantity, we eliminate man’s consciousness, which is boundless. Consciousness is associated with the mind. In the law, called the substance of law, lawyers don’t practice substance. Lawyers practice the policies of the makers and keepers of the law, ignoring our immaterial essence. The form of law can be anything. Hitler’s law was legal in Nazi Germany. CBS missed the target a mile. We couldn’t be thinking.

In law, circumstantial evidence; that is, evidence, rather than based on actual personal knowledge, is from other facts from which deductions can be made: from which juries can reasonably follow, according to the common experience of mankind. Therefore, when we eliminate quality, we eliminate an attribute we humans possess. To say that we don’t possess instant communication with what Carl Jung called collective unconsciousness is to eliminate an essential human quality. It says we can be made copies of any philosophy, including Hitler’s. American resolve is what defeated Hitler. We’ve got to do better than this. The American people have never been more divided.